[wplug] looking for old computers

Nick Iglehart ncoastpub at mousepadmag.com
Thu Dec 5 16:03:45 EST 2002


 
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Yes they are served from another machine but the runtime elements are
still started on the local machine.  Everything that is immediately
necessary in any arbitrary situation is loaded into RAM on the thin
client.   Otherwise, every click would have to be transmitted,
processed and redrawn across the net, which is slow for obvious
reasons.  The only thin client implementation that I am aware of that
handles things that way is the Sun Ray, which compensates in other
ways.

This is why RAM is important in a diskless client.  If everything was
handled on a server then you would only need the bare minimum amount
to handle kernel and device space.  To run an X client you also have
to load that into RAM.  It does run lighter since many elements are
kept on the server and handled there.

- -----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf
Of Eric C. Cooper
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:23 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] looking for old computers


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Nick Iglehart wrote:
> If you use anything slower than a 233 or so I would recommend 
> installing blackbox or some other lightweight window manager. 
> Gnome  and KDE just don't have much oomph on a 486.

The LTSP approach that the OP plans on deploying uses the older
machines as pure X Terminals.  The window managers, desktop
environments, and applications all run on servers with more
horsepower.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u
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